stevefolta

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by stevefolta 6y ago
I switched to dwm a couple of weeks ago after using Ratpoison for years and years, and I'm super happy with it. It solves the things that bugged me about Ratpoison. The one feature I was missing was very easy to add myself (the equiv
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by stevefolta 6y ago
Most of his other videos are about the things he had to do to get that gear to work.
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by stevefolta 6y ago
Reaper [1] is another excellent proprietary DAW that has a Linux version (albeit "experimental"). At this point, if only a couple of plugin companies started releasing for Linux, I could seriously consider switching. And as Appl
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by stevefolta 6y ago
Not to be confused with the earlier language named Neon, which was an object-oriented Forth.
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by stevefolta 7y ago
Much shorter distances can be useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone#Condenser_microphon...
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by stevefolta 7y ago
Also related to the Fairchild 660 compressor, a legendary piece of audio recording equipment.
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by stevefolta 7y ago
It's not just the big name -- Linus learned from the mistakes of the older DVCSs. I also used to use Arch a bit. Git was a vast improvement (eg. it didn't force you to use long ugly branch names).
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by stevefolta 8y ago
The Computron tube was earlier and much more complicated, but a full Computron was never built.
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by stevefolta 8y ago
mlterm also works great with non-monospaced fonts (but doesn't, to my knowledge, have a way to switch between fonts within terminal output, which seems to be what the OP wants).
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by stevefolta 9y ago
This one?: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev93FNJy7Ws> . Here in SoCal, we can get NHK World over-the-air.
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by stevefolta 9y ago
Maybe the other way 'round: I've heard that IBM designed their equipment to fit in standard elevators (whatever that may have been).
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by stevefolta 9y ago
I use Git on my Reaper projects all the time. But I've almost never gone back to an earlier version, and when I have I could've probably anticipated the branch point and just used "Save As". Nonetheless, it feels nice
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by stevefolta 9y ago
> Even WWII there was no indication the US would actually enter the War directly until the Japanese forced the choice. ...and even then, it wasn't entirely clear that the US would enter the European war, until Hitler declared war on
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by stevefolta 10y ago
They also thought she coined the term "bug".
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by stevefolta 10y ago
Your conclusion may be correct, but you're confusing "generational" GC with "copying" GC. There can be generational GCs that use freelists (eg. Boehm) and copying GCs that are not generational (I think the first co
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by stevefolta 10y ago
The Boehm collector claims to be generational, and doesn't move memory, but I haven't found the details of its generationality.
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by stevefolta 10y ago
And I thought it was some kind of retrocomputing project related to Apollo workstations.
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by stevefolta 10y ago
> RISC only made sense when CPU clock speeds were at rough parity with central memory speed, on-chip I-caches were limited, pipelines were short, and compilers were only good at modest optimizations. No, RISC was a response to CPUs bec
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by stevefolta 11y ago
Also, in 1975, punk was just getting started, and it wasn't yet clear that radio was not gonna play the Ramones. I remember hearing "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the radio for the first time, and thinking they'd never play it a
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by stevefolta 11y ago
The Soviets did it too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_4
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by stevefolta 11y ago
> But once it became possible to make one's fortune, the ambitious had to decide whether or not to. A physicist who chose physics over Wall Street in 1990 was making a sacrifice that a physicist in 1960 wasn't. This is perhaps